Philipp Urban received his MS in mathematics from the University of Hamburg, Germany (1999), and PhD from Hamburg University of Technology, Germany (2005). From 2006 to 2008, he was a visiting scientist at Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, after which he headed the Color Research Group at the Institute of Printing Science and Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Since 2013, Urban has been the head of the Competence Center 3D Printing Technology at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Darmstadt and works with his team on the graphical 3D printer driver “Cuttlefish”. He is an adjunct professor in the Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway. His research interests include 3D printing, spectral imaging, image quality, and material appearance reproduction.